Happily, there have been no reports of Swine Fever in Tenerife or the Canary Islands which is just as well because I don’t know how easy it is to find Strepsils on the islands.

According to Michael O’Leary of Ryanair if you are unlucky enough to be struck down with the malady that has raged through Mexico claiming over 150 lives and has the UK government currently dithering over ordering 32 million face masks “…a couple of Strepsils will do the job.”

Michael ‘Foot-in-Mouth’ O’Leary also commented that it was likely only to be the people in the “…slums of Asia or Mexico” for whom Swine Fever would be a tragedy.